Man I’ve been sleeping like poo. This makes nights #3 that I went to bed early, and was up at 12, 1, 2, 2:15, 2:28, 2:56, 3:08… you get the idea. I usually finally fall back to sleep around 4 only to have the alarm go off at 5:30. I’m riding tonight so I don’t have an evening WOD option, so I managed to get out of bed anyway but geez. I’m really looking forward to a complete night of sleep sometime soon. My REM cycle must still be on vacation.

Warm Up: The Usual. Knee felt fine on lunges, so evidently whatever was going on last night worked itself out.

For as much as I complained during this workout, this was actually really fun. I love push press in a WOD. Any WOD. And any weight actually. Since right now, I love push press. It’s my favorite.

My biggest limiter on this workout was my freaking grip strength. I NEED to continue to improve it. After one round I could barely grip the KB, and I was having to do the T2B (aka, knees not-as-pathetically-as-when-I-first-started-to-boobs) in sets of 3-5. My hands HURT, and not exactly the small blisters but more like my actual fingers from trying to grip the bar so hard. Who knew I was such a baby in this regard?

Otherwise, good workout. I kept a good pace and think that I was using the appropriate weight to really get the most out of this longer chipper.

I think the only way to improve it is to work on it more. We recently added 2 rounds of 10 kipping swings into our warm up, and that seems to have helped a lot. I think I’m going to add 2 rounds of 10 into a cool down ritual too.

My hubs suggested I get one of those boingy things that look like a mini weight collar to bring to work so I can squeeze it all day to improve my grip. I feel like that’s either (a) something out of a bad 80s movie or (b) something only a porn star should do at work… but I’m still considering it.